Roses and Cellar Doors

Considering how many F-names seem to be trending ( Finn  and variants, Flynn , Ford ,  Fisher , Fletcher ,  Felicity , Fiona, Freya ), I...

Haha, now that song's in your head! I love a good -ric name. And unlike many constructions, this one is pretty much exclusively male (...

Remy/Remi  is another in a long line of traditionally-masculine-but-sounds-feminine-to-modern-ears names that seems to be on the rise for bo...

I admit, I love most of the Ed-names. There's just something about them. Edward is easily the most common,  but there are lots of ways ...

Guy  is a bit odd. Most people today consider it a slang term rather than a name, and that's not completely unreasonable, since it's...

I admit, I've been putting this one off for a while-- Mary is easily one of the most widespread & translated names of all time! Of...

There are about as many different ways to form nicknames as there are cultures. While many nicknames for our most enduring classics seem out...

This is one of my favorite name families! Like Elizabeth , Alice  has some pretty surprising variants--or should I say, is , a surprising va...

Jacob --a seeming contradiction; both traditional and trendy. It was a top name back when the SSA started keeping track over 120 years ago, ...

Ah, Katherine . Literally one of the oldest names on earth. It's so old that it's original meaning has been lost to time. Many baby ...

The girls sure do have the advantage when it come to word-names, don't they? Name your little girl 'Rose' or 'Honor' and...